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More than 3,000 structured finance professionals converged on the Hotel Arts on the shore of the Mediterranean in Barcelona last week for IMN's 10th annual investor's and issuer's summit on Global ABS.

Lehman Brothers has bolstered its sales effort in Hong Kong with two senior hires.

JPMorgan has hired Citigroup's Matt Cherwin to head its asset-backed securities trading group in New York, which will include synthetics and secondary CDOs.

Merrill Lynch has hired John Uglum, managing director in interest rate exotic derivatives trading, from Morgan Stanley.

A fair-value measure of implied volatility would be an invaluable tool in the fx options market.

Three senior collateralized debt obligation staff have separately exited The Royal Bank of Scotland in London.

Retail and high-net-worth investors who have bought into instruments tied to single stocks may face losing significant chunks of capital invested.

Royal Bank of Canada has launched a a reverse-convertible note--typically linked to single stocks---which references an index.

The Eu1bn deal for cable company Telenet will be signed imminently. ABN Amro (bookrunner), GE Commercial Services (bookrunner), Royal Bank of Scotland (bookrunner), Société Générale (bookrunner) and KBC (documentation and coordinating agent) are mandated lead arrangers on the deal.

Deutsche Bank has tapped SG's global head of structured credit trading in London.